Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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TO FURMFOLD McLENDEL SIMMONS THE MODEST COI NTRY BOY WHO WAS A STl DENT IN WAKE FOREST COLLEGE IN 1868-1870 AND HAS SINCE BECOME ONE OF THE MOST TRLSTED OF THE STATESMEN OF THIS COMMONWEALTH AND ONE OF THE GREAT LEADERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE L ' MTED STATES, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED BY THE EDITORS AS AN EMDENCE OF HIS ALMA MATER ' s ADMIRATION FUR HIS ILLtSTRIUlS CAREER

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FUHNIFOLD McLENDEL SIMMONS FIVE MEN represent the four i)erioils of the history of the State of North Carolina: William R. Davie and Willie Jones represent the Revolu- tionary period, Nathaniel Macon the Constructive period that followed, Zebulon Baird Vance the Civil War period, and F. M. Simmons the Con- structive [)eriod from Vance to the present hour; and the star of Simmons is yet in the ascendant. Farmer, lawyer, member of the National House of Representatives, Collector of Internal Revenue, United States Senator, chief- tain of the dominant political party in North Carolina, faithful in all and ecpial to everv occasion, for thirty-one years his career has marked the course and determined the character of this Commonwealth. A wise, candid, fighting politician, to begin with, he has, in the United States Senate, wherein men are measured by the standards of a most exacting perspective, become the mainstay of his party and the trusted spokesman, adviser and friend of the President in the hour of our country ' s and the world ' s supreme crisis, and enrolled his name in the list of American statesmen.